The latter is from the Cato Institute, which is falsely identified as "conservative":

The risk of alienating Hispanics is much greater than the risk of turning off conservatives, Griswold said. He noted Republicans who supported guest worker programs like Reps. Jeff Flake and Jim Kolbe in Arizona and Chris Cannon in Utah have survived primary challenges from anti-immigration opponents.

Obviously, that's not telling the whole story. Cannon's brother is the head of the Utah GOP and he had much more money than his opponent. And, he was forced to spend almost all of it in order to win. And, is an aide suggesting ways that illegal aliens could donate to your campaign really that "conservative"?

Or that hordes of poor Hispanics are going to line up to vote, period. It is now taking years for the LEGAL immigrants to be naturalized citizens before they try to add all of the illegal ones in the que, plus all of the other "guest-workers".

Wed, 03/29/2006 - 06:13

eh

"votes"

Ho-hum; if you've seen this argument once you've seen it a million times, right? These idiots all write from the same template; as if in anywhere but an evil alternate universe anyone would believe hordes of poor Hispanics are going to line up to vote Republican.